At a recent working session with provincial leaders, Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The said the transport ministry approved a business plan for 2018 of the Airports Corporation of Vietnam, which includes a project on building Terminal T1 with an annual capacity of 5 million passengers, along with the apron and synchronous infrastructure of Phu Bai Airport.
The number of passengers at the Phu Bai International Airport will reach 3-3.5 million by 2020
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Phu Bai International Airport is designed to serve 1.5 million passengers a year, but the number of passengers at this airport was already 1.75 million in 2017. The annual passenger growth rate averaged 15 percent between 2014 and 2017.
With the predicted growth of 13-17 percent each year from 2016 to 2020, the number of passengers will reach 3-3.5 million by 2020 and 6.5-7 million by 2025 every year, the official added.
Therefore, the upgrade is to prepare for the forecast surge of passengers that this port of entry will handle in the next several years.
To develop Vietnam’s aviation transport system, the government has recently approved the revision of the national aviation transport development plan till 2020 with a vision to 2030, with the upgrade and construction of several airports.
Under the plan, Vietnam will put 23 airports into operation by 2020, of which Noi Bai, Danang, Tan Son Nhat and Cam Ranh will act as international gateways.
According to the new plan, the country will upgrade three aviation transport centers of Noi Bai, Tan Son Nhat and Danang to make it meet ASEAN standards while set up three more logistics chains of Van Don, Chu Lai and Long Thanh.
The aviation industry will exploit 23 airports with an annual traffic of 144 million passengers by 2020 and 28 airports with an annual traffic of 308 million passengers by 2030.
Under the plan, the number of aircraft will grow by more than 220 units by 2020 and 400 units by 2030, increasing by 70-100 units compared to the previous plan.
The ministry predicts that the transport of passengers via domestic airlines will increase at an average rate of 16 percent annually from now until 2020 and by 8 percent during 2020-2030. Meanwhile, the transport of goods is expected to grow at an annual rate of 18 percent from now until 2020 and at 12 percent annually during 2020-2030.
The domestic airlines are expected to reach a volume of 64 million passengers every year by 2020 and 131 million annually by 2030.
This growth rate is 2-4 percent higher than the current plan and is also higher than the average growth of the global aviation industry.
Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Van Cong said the revised plan was updated on the basis of the scientific objections raised by the Science and Aviation Technology Association and Aircraft Design and Consultancy Company Ltd at the request of Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung.
A revision in the plan is needed, creating a legal framework to continuously develop aviation transportation in future and ensuring sustainability and safety, Dung said.
The previous plan was approved by the Prime Minister in 2009. After many years of implementation, the scale of aviation market has progressed, but it still ranks the fifth in ASEAN.
